Word Origin & History

hunt O.E. huntian "chase game," related to hentan "to seize," from P.Gmc. *khuntojan (cf. Goth. hinþan "to seize, capture," O.H.G. hunda "booty"), from PIE *kend-. General sense of "search diligently" (for anything) is first recorded c.1200. The noun meaning "body of persons associated for the purpose of hunting with a pack of hounds" is first recorded 1579. Happy hunting-grounds "Native American afterlife paradise" is from "Last of the Mohicans" (1826).

Example Sentences for hunted

But I hunted everywhere for you and then got a horse and rode out home.

He hunted and trapped in the new country as he had in the old.

That he was hunted to suicide, I could, if necessary, establish by indisputable testimony.

In Chili it is hunted with dogs, or, driven up a tree, is easily shot.

I hunted up the tree and got some scions from it and distributed them.

In many places he has been so hunted by man that he has disappeared.

We had not a single boy at our works, but I could see several of our men were joining in the sport, to them, of having me hunted.

In fact, so handsome is his fur that he has been hunted for it until now.

All the day they hunted,And nothing could they find But a ship a-sailing,A-sailing with the wind.